Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.