All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried

I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

Free nations are the best vehicle for expressing the will of the people. And America respects the right of all nations to chart their own path.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

If economy were good, there'd be no immigration problem.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.