Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

I am never less alone than when alone.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.