Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.