The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.