When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

We must cultivate our own garden.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.