The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.