Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
History should be written as philosophy.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
Better is the enemy of the good.
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be...
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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