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

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

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

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

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

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.