Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.