If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.