Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?