The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.