Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.