One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.