Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.