Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.