Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.