Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.