Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?