“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice