The most reliable way to forecast the future is to understand the present.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
La liberté, c'est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent.
Mathematics is the music of reason.