A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Only law can give us freedom.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.