Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.