Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.