The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.