Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.