If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.