The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.