Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.