A good action is preferable to an argument.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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