It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by...
S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
Love truth, but pardon error.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Let us cultivate our garden.
Fear could never make a virtue.
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The superfluous is very necessary.
Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.