If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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