We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

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.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.