In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

Where there is love, there is God also.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.