If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.