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.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

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.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

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.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.