He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

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

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.

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

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

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.