“If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.”

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."(Notebooks)”

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

“mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”