Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.