If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
What can I hope when all is right?
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.