He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.