It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.