Injustice in the end produces independence.

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

We must cultivate our own garden.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.