There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

The road to the heart is the ear

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.