What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.