It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.