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

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.