Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.