If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.