Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.