Sublime

No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ. Incomplete it may be, but it is sublime. It loosened all the secret chains of society, it softened all hearts, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused waves of civilization to flow over the earth; it was good.

a été

he did not seek to condense the glimmer of things into flame; he was nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician. His humble soul loved, and that was enough.