If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.