Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.