The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.