I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

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.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

Without justice, courage is weak.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.