History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.