“The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.”

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

“Crush the infamous thing!”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”