One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology.

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable.