I believe in three things: life, pleasure, and death, because I know them to exist." "And pain, Monsieur ?" said Brother Jacques softly.
"Ah well, and pain," abstractedly.

"But as to Heaven and hell, bah! Let some one prove to me that there exists a hereafter other than silence; I am not unreasonable.

People say that I am an infidel, an atheist.

I am simply a pagan, even more of a pagan than the Greeks, for they worshiped marble.

Above all things I am a logician; and logic can not feed upon suppositions; it must have facts.