Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?