Every movement reveals us.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.