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Man Became Free When He Recognized That He Was Subject To Law.

Civilization Is Not Inherited; It Has To Be Learned And Earned By Each Generation Anew; If The Transmission Should Be Interrupted For One Century, Civilization Would Die, And We Should Be Savages Again.

History Is Always Repeating Itself, But Each Time The Price Goes Up.

The Failure Of The Reformation To Capture France Had Left For Frenchmen No Half-way House Between Infallibility And Infidelity; And While The Intellect Of Germany And England Moved Leisurely In The Lines Of Religious Evolution, The Mind Of France Leaped From The Hot Faith Which Had Massacred The Huguenots To The Cold Hostility With Which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, And Diderot Turned Upon The Religion Of The Fathers.

Drunkenness Was In Good Repute In England Till "bloody Mary" Frowned Upon It; It Remained Popular In Germany. The French Drank More Stably, Not Being Quite So Cold.