If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

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.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

The universe is a thought of God.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.