The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.