All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.