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.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.