The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.