All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

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

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

To philosophize is to doubt.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.