Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

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

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.