A witty quote proves nothing.

Change everything except your loves.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.