It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.