I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

All children are essentially criminal.

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

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.