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."

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

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

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

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.