Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.