The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.
The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
History is as much an art as a science.