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

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

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

To be and to think are one and the same for us.