Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.