Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.