The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.