Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.