Love truth, but pardon error.

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.