Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Faith is a gift of God.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.