Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.