We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.