Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.