Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.