The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?