God defend me from myself.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!