I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.