Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

The property of power is to protect.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.