Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.