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.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.