Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

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.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

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

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.