I am a part and parcel of God.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

Men are what their mothers made them.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.