The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

I call architecture frozen music.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.