Men argue. Nature acts.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.