If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

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.