I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.