A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Paradise is where I am

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.