A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

Be more than you seem to be.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.