It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.