The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.