Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.