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

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.