There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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