"He who thinks himself wise, O heavens!..." - Quote by Voltaire

“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.”

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

“A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.”

“Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”