What we do not understand we do not possess.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.