Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.