Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. - Denis Diderot

This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.