It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.