She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

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

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.