What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.