The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.