No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Every great man is unique.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.