The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.