I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

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

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.

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