Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.