To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.