I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .