We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.