Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.