A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
The best is the enemy of the good.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.