Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.