Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

I live, which is the main point.

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!