It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.