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.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

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.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.