I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.