To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.