The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
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.
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.