We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

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

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

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge.

Style is the essence of man