It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!