Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

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.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

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

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.