If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.