It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleTo despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleLeibniz 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.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle