There can be no happiness without good health

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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