To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.