Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

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.