Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.