Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

I felt before I thought

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.