Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

This is no time to be making new enemies.