Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.