Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.