Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.