I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.