To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

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

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.

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

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

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.