Everything is here, from the way to make a pin down to the art of casting and pointing your guns; from the infinitely little up to the infinitely great.

Thank God for having brought into the world in your kingdom the men who have done such good work for the whole universe.

Other nations must either buy the Encyclopaedia, or else they must pirate it.

Take all my property if you will, but give me back my Encyclopaedia." "Yet they say," replied the king, "that there are many faults in this work, necessary and admirable as it is." "Sire," said the Count de C----, "there were at your supper two ragouts which were failures; we left them uneaten, and yet we had excellent cheer.

Would you have had them throw all the supper out of the window because of those two ragouts ?..." Envy and Ignorance did not count themselves beaten; the two immortal sisters continued their cries, their cabals, their persecutions.