The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.