"Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas - habit."

“Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty interests and the search of perishable things, and with that they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self so hardly worthy of it.”

“The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, et try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships.”

“Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.”

“To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at but after all , what do they get for it Softer cushions, better meat , more outward thoughtfuls , maybe decorations ... that is all. And to think that there are found serious men who consume their whole existence in the pursuit and the expectation of these trivialities.”

“Devoting ourselves too much to an exclusive search of a material happiness, of ephemerous goods, one fails to appreciate the truerealities of life and one let the spirit decline and dry up”

“If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations , its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen”