Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.