The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Another occupation might have been better.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.