Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
VoltaireAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
VoltaireI never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
Voltaire