Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.