I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.