To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.