I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.