There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.