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

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.