The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Wine is the divine juice of September.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

The 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.