It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.