Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

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

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.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.