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.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.