All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

The superfluous is the most necessary.