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.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.