"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."

"I have no other desire than to live and to write."

"I have never done anything wrong in my life, except to think."

"The more atrocious a crime is, the more it flatters one's vanity."

"The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable."