Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past.

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.