Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

The only thing I command is respect.

The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.