The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.