James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Pasquier Quesnel

Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self.

Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it encroaches upon the rights of others.