Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Thank you for nothing.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.