If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle