I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.