I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.