If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Religion is the highest vanity.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.