Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.