Birth is nothing where virtue is not

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.