Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.