An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.