had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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.

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.

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

Aura, " he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'dfeel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.