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

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Common sense is not so common.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.