Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?