I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.