Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.