One Should Never Despair Too Soon.

Many Battles Have Been Fought And Won By Soldiers Nourished On Beer, And The King Does Not Believe That Coffee-drinking Soldiers Can Be Relied Upon To Endure Hardships In Case Of Another War.

A Crown Is Merely A Hat That Lets The Rain In.

You Will Certainly Grant Me That Neither Antiquity Nor Whatever Nation Has Devised A More Repulsive And Blasphemous Absurdity Than That Of Eating Your God. This Is The Most Disgusting Dogma Of Christian Religion, The Greatest Insult To The Highest Being, The Climax Of Madness And Insanity.

I Have No Fault To Find With Those Who Teach Geometry. That Science Is The Only One Which Has Not Produced Sects; It Is Founded On Analysis And On Synthesis And On The Calculus; It Does Not Occupy Itself With The Probable Truth; Moreover It Has The Same Method In Every Country.

In Trying To Defend Everything He Defended Nothing.