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.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.