The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

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.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!