The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.