It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.