Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.