It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.