God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

The best is the enemy of the good.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.