Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?