No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

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