Virtue gives happiness and a state of blessedness only to those who have a strong faith in their virtue: -not, however, to the more refined souls whose virtue consists of a profound distrust of themselves and of all virtue. After all, therefore, it is faith that saves here also!

Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.