If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey