I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

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

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

With knowledge grows doubt.

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.