"At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; …"

"Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates…"

"The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into vic…"

"Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity."

"No faith has triumphed without its martyrs."

"Illusions ruin all those whom they blind."

"Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions…"

"Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls."

"Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue."

"Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be?"