"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."

"The greatest inventions were at first but the objects of ridicule."

"The commonest things are the most useful; which shows the wisdom of God, who has made them common."