We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
VoltaireThe passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
VoltaireCustom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
Voltaire