Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.