I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.