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

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

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.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.