Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.