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

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

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.

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

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

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.