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.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.