The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.