A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.