Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.