It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

The people rate strength before everything.