Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.