People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.