The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

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

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

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.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

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.