No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.