The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.