Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.