Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.