Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

There are no sects in geometry.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.