The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.