Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.