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

“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.”

“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.)”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

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

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

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”