Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.