The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

When you are alone you are all your own.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.