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

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.