Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.