The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.