I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

The road is long fro the project to its completion.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.