Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.