I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.