It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.