Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."