If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.