Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.