Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender nar…”

“It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacre…”

“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with…”

“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our be…”