In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.