There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A witty saying proves nothing.