The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.