He is lifeless that is faultless.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.