The perfect is the enemy of the good.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.