All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

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

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.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

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

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.