He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.