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

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

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

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

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