The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I don't conquer, I submit.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.