Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.