Good men do the most harm.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.