Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Faith is a gift of God.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!