Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.