Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.