Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

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

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.