The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.