127: Malheur au vague! Mieux vaut le faux! [Renan]
127: "I regretted not being a Protestant so that I could continue to be a philosopher without ceasing to be a Christian. Then I realized that it was only Catholics who were logical"
144: In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave / If secret gold creeps on from knave to knave [Pope]
144: A brain of feathers & a heart of lead [Pope]
166: He is stupid as are all heartless men. Because thoughts do not come from the head, but from the heart. [Heine]
167: Il faut payer par la tristesse, par la desolation, l'orgueil d'avoir pensé [A. France]
177: No doctrine is defined until it is violated [Newman]
179: Der hohe Sinn des Papsts: er sieht das Kleine, klein; das Grosse, gross. [Goethe]
197: La religion est la vaccine de l'imagination; elle la preserve de toutes les croyances dangereuses et absurdes [Napoleon]
197: Un quart de savante, qui n'a point de base pour sa morale et point d'idée fixe. [Napoleon]
254: Galileo harps on how things happen, when his adversaries had a complete theory as to why things happen [A.N. Whitehead]
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