Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.