L'homme est bien insense. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a douzaines.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

'Goethe, as lately quoted by Matthew Arnold, said those who have science and art have religion; and added, let those who have not science and art have the popu…

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred tr…

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.