Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.