Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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 argue. Nature acts.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.