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.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.