“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

“when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”

“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”

“Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.”

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”