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.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Wine is the divine juice of September.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.