We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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.
Born merely for the purpose of digestion.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.