No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.