We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
