Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Money confounds subordination.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.