All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.