Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
The only truth is love beyond reason.
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.