Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.