One should eat to live, not live to eat.
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!