The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.