We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.