Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.