People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?