When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.