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

L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il es…

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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

- 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

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

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

- 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