Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.