I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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

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.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.