How easy it is to tell tales!

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

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.