Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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.