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.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.