It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for, once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

There are few men who durst publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.