All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?