All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.