You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.