Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.