The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.