Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

God made the water but men made the wine.

Progress is the stride of God.

Despotism is a long crime.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?