The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

The world is the house of the strong.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.