Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Respectable people... What bastards!

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.