It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Almost all life depends on probabilities.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.