An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.