"In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development of the faculties of the intelligence , the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental things."

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”