Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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.)

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.