Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.