The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

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.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.