I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.