Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.