Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.