History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.