The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

Perfect is the enemy of good.