People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

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

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Docility is the observable half of reason.