In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.