No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

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.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.