Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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

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

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?