He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.