Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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.

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.