Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon