We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.