I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.