She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.