It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.