Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.