No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.