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.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.