The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

No animal admires another animal.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.