Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.