Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

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

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.