We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.