There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.