Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.