A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

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

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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