It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.