I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop.
The senator resumed:-- "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

Voltaire made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that God is useless.

A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies the fiat lux.

Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; you have the world.

Man is the eel.