Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

There are no sects in geometry.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.