Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.