If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

There can be no happiness without good health

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.