True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

What is not in nature can never be true.