"To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

"It is an established fact that luxury nourishes a thousand families in London and ruins a hundred thousand in the Indies."

"The very idea of a God is the most sublime and profound of all ideas."

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

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