Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.