God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Those who do not weep, do not see.