There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.