One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The superfluous is very necessary.

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.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions