We Wish To Constitute All The Happiness,

When We Are Dead We Are Praised By Those Who Survive Us, Though We Frequently Have No Other Merit Than That Of Being No Longer Alive.

Languages Are No More Than The Keys Of Sciences. He Who Despises One, Slights The Other.

A Man Of Moderate Understanding, Thinks He Writes Divinely: A Man Of Good Understanding, Thinks He Writes Reasonably.

Make Me Chaste And To What Excesses Will Men Not Go For The Sake Of A Religion In Which They Believe So Little And Which They Practice So Imperfectly!

To Express Truth Is To Write Naturally, Forcibly, And Delicately.