Men argue. Nature acts.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.