The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.