Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.