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.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

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

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.