Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.