Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Fear first created the gods.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.