"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

"The instruction we receive in our childhood is like the engraving on a stone, which time effaces but slowly."

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."