It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.