In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

Progress is the life-style of man.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.