I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.