I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.