It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.