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.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.