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

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.

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.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

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.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.