It is enough for us ourselves to know that, though there is a Supreme Power, there is no Supreme Being.

There is an invisible principle, but not a personal God, to whom it would be not so much blasphemy as absurdity to impute the form, the sentiments, the passions of man.

All revelation is, necessarily, a mere fiction.

That which men call chance is only the effect of an unknown cause.

Even of chances there is a law.