There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth