Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

To love beauty is to see light.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.