In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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