Every form correctly seen is beautiful

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.