An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleThe judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleI feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle