We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Nature has always had more force than education.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.