If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.