The more you say, the less they remember..

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing..

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe..

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads..

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not..

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue..

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot..

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread..

It is not customary to love what one has..

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training..

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance..

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beauti….

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A natio….

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature..

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences..

Our passions are ourselves..

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being..

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull..

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortun….

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief..

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards..