A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!