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

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

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

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

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