The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.