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!

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

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

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.