Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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.

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.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.