Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.