The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.