Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.