Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

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.

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

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.