In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

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.

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.

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

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

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