How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.