In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.