"There is nobody who is not surprised of the small price of pins; but we shall be even more surprised, when we know ho…"

"This Duhamel has invented an infinity of machines which serve no purpose, has written and translated a multitude of b…"

"Though he loved many innovations in science and devoted his life to introduce useful ones in the arts, he didn't like…"

"The French botanist and chemist Henri-Louis Duhamel de Monceau (1700–1782) identified a fungal disease on the bulbs o…"

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"

"The well-informed surgeon must not consider it an unnecessary condescension to occupy himself with cares which the vu…"

"He was an excellent observer and a great worker, who knew how to adopt and adapt others' ideas very practically."