Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.