Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.