... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.