Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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