Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.