Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.