Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Those who laugh often never grow old.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.