What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.