Man is free the moment he wants to be.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.