Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

History is as much an art as a science.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."