A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.