You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
• He is a hard man who is only just and a sad one who is only wise.
• Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
• Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
• I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
• The secret of being boring is to say everything.
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
• The way to become boring is to say everything.
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.