When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.