Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Happiness is not the portion of man.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.