A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
There are no sects in geometry.
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.