Un homme ne peut se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins. - Honoré de Balzac

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshness of a lake. There is no character in women’s faces before the age of thirty.

La puissance ne consiste pas à frapper fort ou souvent, mais à frapper juste.

The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.