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

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.