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

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.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

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.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.