Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.