The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.