To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.