Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.