Hope is a working-man's dream.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.