My appetite comes to me while eating.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.