There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

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

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.