The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.