Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.