If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.