Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.