Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon Quotes
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.
The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.
Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
