Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.