Voltaire

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.