In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.