It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.