It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.