Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for…

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immodera…

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real exi…

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon