In spite of the attention paid to religious instruction, the sermons, the good books, the edifying spectacles, the lottery, and so many other good things, faith is departing.

The general aspect of the country does not betray the fact, because the fear of scandal pervades all society; but the devil loses nothing by that.

Perhaps the citizens have the greater dislike to religion, from the very fact of its reigning over them.

Our master is our enemy.

God is too much the master of these people not to be treated by them in some degree as an enemy.
The spirit of opposition is called atheism, where the Tuileries are called the Vatican.