I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.