Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!