A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

We cannot wish for that we know not.