The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

It needs courage to be afraid.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.