Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.