You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!