A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

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.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.