Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.