Progress is the stride of God.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?