Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]