Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Common sense is not so common.

The register, the attorneys, and bailiffs, went to his house with great formality to carry him back his four hundred ounces. They only retained three hundred and ninety-eight of them to defray the expenses of justice; and then their servants demanded their fees.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Do transports of rage make a religion any truer? A man shot in a battle does not lose his temper, but argue with a theologian and he becomes implacable.

Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.