The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.