Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.