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

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.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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.

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

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.