When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.