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

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

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.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.