Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.