The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.