We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.