A Society In Which Marriage Is Encouraged

We Improve Ourselves By Victories Over Ourselves. There Must Be Contest, And We Must Win.

[the] Vain And Transitory Scenes Of Human Greatness Are Unworthy Of A Serious Thought.

The Philosopher, Who With Calm Suspicion Examines The Dreams And Omens, The Miracles And Prodigies, Of Profane Or Even Of Ecclesiastical History, Will Probably Conclude That, If The Eyes Of The Spectators Have Sometimes Been Deceived By Fraud, The Understanding Of The Readers Has Much More Frequently Been Insulted By Fiction.

Does There Exist A Single Instance Of A Saint Asserting That He Himself Possessed The Gift Of Miracles?

The Historian Must Have Some Conception Of How Men Who Are Not Historians Behave.