All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

God created woman to tame man.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.