Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.