The road to the heart is the ear

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.