Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Man is never perfect nor contented.
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.