All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.