French "journalist, playwright, aphorist".
"He was a brilliant conversationalist and man of letters; noted for one-act comedy "La Jeune Indienne," 1764."
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
The public! How many fools does it take to make a public?