If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.