It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes..

I hate war, for it spoils conversation..

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can p….

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood..

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignifican….

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property..

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Par….

I detest war; it ruins conversation.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness..

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole glo….

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left hi….

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual..

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry..

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory..

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as u….

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard….

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood..

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and ….

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise..

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it..