Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.