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

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.