Joy is the reflex of terror.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.