Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.