It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

One can really love only once.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women