But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

A hard drill makes an easy battle.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Whatever you resist will persist.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.