I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

God created woman to tame man.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?