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.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.