The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.