What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?