The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.