It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Come what may, I have been blest.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.