The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

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

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.