The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.