Fear could never make virtue.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.