He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.