An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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.