All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.