September 28.

Of small brains, or Of brains that stir quickly and easily.

Of peoples and ages in which everyone has little brain. And today we have much mind and little brain. That is to say, we have small brains that stir easily.”

The Hebrews never had all the vices, but only those that come from the body (from flesh and blood). It appears that they were free of those that come from the mind. Scripture reproaches them neither with horrible pederasty nor with the shedding of seed by the hands. Even St. Paul seems to make these exclusively the vices of the gentiles.

In how many thousand ways the opinion that “man was created learned and perfect” (or complete) is the best.”

One can very well Hebraize without being a Hebrew and Hellenize without being a Greek. I mean that one can very well imagine and even imitate the style of the Hebrews and the Greeks without knowing a word of their languages; but not without knowing their writers.

All books written in an idiom other than our own can be known to us only through some translation, either the one made for us or the one we make of them ourselves.

Voltaire would have read attentively and patiently through thirty and forty folio volumes to find a little irreligious joke in them. That was his passion, his ambition, his disposition and his mania.”

— That is to be Christian in body, but not in heart and mind