Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
Progress is the stride of God.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.