He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.