"History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead."

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

"He who is not a little mad, has no wisdom."