If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.