History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

The superfluous is very necessary.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

God created woman to tame man.