No human creature can give orders to love.

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.