I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.