A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

There is a sort of transcendental ventriloquy through which men can be made to believe that something which was said on earth came from heaven.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in com

Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn’t expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.