Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
Peter De VriesThe idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
Peter De Vries