Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Friends should be preferred to kings.