If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.