Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.