It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.