God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
A good action is preferable to an argument.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.