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.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

The truth brings no man a fortune.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.