They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!