Progress is the life-style of man.
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.