Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

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

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.