Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Anatomy is destiny.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The memory of joy is no longer joy, the memory of pain is pain still.

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

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