All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You