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• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
  -- Voltaire...
• It's a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
• Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of word
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Cleobulus, iv...
• I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
  -- Voltaire (1692-1778) signed 28 Feb. 1778 quoted by Tallentyre...
• The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire
• GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons.
  It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest....