It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.