The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.