We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

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.

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

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.

Take one day at a time, nurture each day, and the hurt will be yesterdays past.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

God and Nature met in light.

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.