Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.