Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.