A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.