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

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Minds differ still more than faces.