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.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.