Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?