Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him