Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Business is the salt of life.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Justice delayed is justice denied.