Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Let us cultivate our garden.