Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.