Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.