Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

History is fables agreed upon.