God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.