The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.