"The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero.…"

"There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author…"

"When men follow this blind and powerful instinct of nature, they always suppose the very images, presented by the sen…"

"Pythagoras was a man; and with all his imperfections on his head, we shall look among the race of men, for his better…"

"If the Multiplicity of Religions prejudices the State, it proceeds from their not bearing with one another but on the…"

"... l'exactitude de citer. C'est un talent plus rare que l'on ne pense."

"Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates…"

"Man muß sich unvermeidlich zwischen der Philosophie und dem Evangelium entscheiden. Wenn ihr nur das glauben wollt, w…"

"Die Theologen dürfen sich auch nicht schämen zuzugeben, dass sie sich nicht auf eine Auseinandersetzung mit solchen K…"

"Das Christentum gehört einer übernatürlichen Ordnung an, und sein Fundament ist die höchste Autorität Gottes, der uns…"