The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.