The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.]

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.