Almost all life depends on probabilities.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.