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.
Jean de la BruyereThe punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Jean de la BruyereThere are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
Jean de la Bruyere