The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.