That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.