Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?