The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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.