One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.