The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.