It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Fear could never make virtue.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.