"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

"A big book is a big bore."

"I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets."

"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."

"It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."