But if all Paris were to assure me that a dead man had come to life again, I should not believe a word of it.

That a historian should impose upon us, or that a whole people should be mistaken--there is no miracle in that.

(Sec.46.) What is God?
A question that we put to children, and that philosophers have much trouble to answer.

We know the age at which a child ought to learn to read, to sing, to dance, to begin Latin or geometry.

It is only in religion that you take no account of his capacity.