God created sex. Priests created marriage.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.