War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

May you live all the days of your life.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.