Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.