Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.