You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.