No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
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Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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Man makes holy what he believes.
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
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Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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