I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.