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!

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

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