How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!