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.

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.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

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

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.