God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.